The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1875, Page 6

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Matinee at 1:30 P.M ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Yourteonth street.—German Opern—THE MAGIC FLUTE, a Tue Henacp py Fast Mam, Trarss,—Ners- dealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, the South and Southwest, also along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- nections, will be supplied with Taz Hunaxp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements Offered to newsdealers Ly sending their orders direct to this office. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear and cold. Wau Strext Yestenpay.—Stocks were dull | and lower. Gold declined from 114 3-4 to 1143-8 Rag paper is worth 87.42. Money pn call loaned at 3 and 4 per cent. Gov- ernment and railway bonds were strong. Anornern InsuncENT Svo is reported from Ragusa. This time a fort and its garri- son have been captured. Tue Prorte of Kuoxanp are to be hon- ored for the spirit which impels them to re- sist Russian aggression; but, as in the recent terrible battle at Namanghan, re- sistance is useless. Between Russia and England the Asiatics cannot expect to pre- serve their independence. As tHe Sranisu Rerrx to the Washington note occasioned such a division of opinion in the Ministry, on account of its moderation, | as to require the draft of the Minister of For- eign Affairs to be remodelled by the Presi- dent of the Council, curiosity as to the tone of the answer will be greatly excited on this | side of the water. ‘Tue Scawwent, Taian progressed yesterday bo rapidly that the case for the prosecution closed and that for the defence was begun. | The District Attorney has contented himself with proving the homicidal act and the at- tending circumstances. The defence is that of insanity, and the witnesses presented yester- day took that view. The trial will probably be closed by the end of next week. Sent om Fiout.—According to the Madrid despatches of the London Daily News, re- ported by cable to the Hxnatp this morning, the Spaniards expect the ultimatum of the | rectification of the frontier. The state- | United States in regard to the Cuban diffi- | culty to be “sell or fight.” This is not very day that the administration will propose to | likely. Cuba is too certain to fall intoourlap Mexico, for a fair equivalent, a straight line | | Grande are an evil of many years standing, hundreds of thousands of dollars in each case.” It was proved by docu- > | mentary evidence ‘that the number |The Troubles om the Mexican Border. It is a serious national misfortune to have a President in whose management of our foreign relations the people do not repose confidence. The public mind has recently been disturbed by a Cuban excitement, to which the unwonted and unexplained activity in our navy yards supplied fuel, and as it is now confessed that there is nothing in our relations with Spain to justify so much preparation direction in search of a cause for the sudden bustle inthe navy yards. A fresh outbreak of the troubles on the Rio Grande suggests | the possibility of hostilities with Mexico and | | the employment of a fleet on the Mexican | coast of the Gulf, President Grant has only | Lb lf to blame that the country so dis- | the trusts him) If he would allow i people to have a knowledge of , their own busine: he is their | | mere agent to transact, every slight com- | plication with a foreign Power would not | | unsettle the public tranquillity and injure | the business of the country. The fact that President Grant is supposed to be scheming for a re-election brings his motives into sus- picion, and adds to the uneasiness occasioned by warlike preparations of which there is no adequate explanation. So far as the public has any knowledge there is nothing in our relations with Mexico to justify a war, or even to afford a good pretext for one. The |raids and cattle stealing on the Rio and however exasperating they may be to people on that frontier they do not call for extreme measures. They are susceptible of a peaceful remedy, and until peaceful means have been tried and exhausted no resort should be had to any other. We have care- fully looked through the diplomatic corre- spondence published by order of Congress last winter, and find nothing in that part of it relating to Mexico which evinces a dispo- | sition on the part of either government to evade its obligations to the other. It is clear enough from the correspondence that there are two sides to this question of cattle stealing, and that the Mexicans are not the sole offenders. Our Minister at Mexico, Mr. Foster, gave a candid statement of the Mexi- can side of the case in a despatch to Mr. Fish, communicating the results of the in- vestigation by a commission authorized by the Mexican Congress. Mr. Foster indorsed the character of the commission in very decided language. ‘‘The result of the labors of the commission,” Mr. Boster said, “has not disappointed the expecta- tions expressed by this legation as to the amount of close research which it displays and the apparent consci- entiousness and moderation with which its conclusions are stated.” The Mexican Com- mission invited Texan claimants to appear before it and _ testify, but they all refused to do so, and the evidence it gathered is therefore ex parte ; | but our Minister did not doubt that it was honest. ‘Being obliged to derive its facts,” he said, ‘chiefly from Mexican sources, it was natural that the report should give prominence to the losses and outrages suffered by Mexicans at the hands of Texan malefactors, and, while presenting but little in confirmation, should contain much in abatement of the large loss alleged to have been suffered by American citizens.” Mr. Foster scemed to entertain no doubt that the statements of the Texans were gross exaggerations, nor any doubt that many prominent persons in Texas were engaged in robberies of cattle, who, nevertheless, ‘“‘ap- peared before the American Border Commis- sion presenting claims against Mexico for of cattle alleged to have been stolen in spe- | cific years is vastly in excess of the entire amount ever owned in the counties in question; that the entire official valuation of real estate in those counties forms but a fraction of the alleged losses, and that there | are several instances of persons who have al- | leged losses of thousands of cattle who have | either paid no taxes on cattle or paid them on but a few scores or hundreds.” The fact that our Minister at Mexico was inclined to | credit these statements, or at least indorsed | the care and conscientiousness of the com- | | mission that made them, is a reason why our | | government should exercise great caution in | demanding redress for injuries which, if not | fictitious, are enormously exaggerated. Mr. Foster's despatch to Secretary Fish | communicating this information may perhaps be one of the reasons why the President refused to send to the frontier the troops public attention is turned in another | | stands between so dangerous a man and the NEW YOKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY. {within our limits and establish a line | along which there would be no danger of mutual raids, as it would) run mainly | through a mountainous and uninhabitable region, It would shorten the boundary line | by one-half, and by giving us jurisdietion on both banks of the Rio Grande would put an end to the existing exasperations. We | hope there are no mining jobs concealed un- der this proposal, because, in other respects, it is a desirable rectification of the frontier, not only by shortening the line, but by so placing it that there would be no subsequent difficulty in maintaining relations of good neighborhood. If our government pro- such purchase it should be willing to make Mexico a fair and even a lib- eral compensation, and it ought to make no | attempt to constrain her free choice. A | mining job would explode the whole project, and we hope there is none in it. The chief difficulty of such a negotiation lies in the national pride of the Mexicans, which would revolt at parting with the strip of territory. If President Lerdo were near the beginning of his term the project would seem more feasible; yet he has still three years to serve. The President of Mexico is elected for six | years, and gs Lerdo came into office on the | Ast of December, 1872, he is now in the mid- die of his term, and might possibly recover from the unpopularity of a treaty of cession before its expiration. Desirable as a change of boundary is no attempt must be made to force it without stronger reasons than exist at present. If we were at war with Mexico we could seize the strip of territory we want on the right bank of the Rio Grande and hold it; but there is no justification for an immediate war. The time is sure tocome when the wants of the Mexican treasury and the will- ingness of the people to escape heavy taxa- | poses a tion will reconcile them to such a readjust- | ment of boundaries as will bring a hand- | some sum of money and remove a constant source of irritation between the two countries, and which would, therefore, be of great mutual advantage. Our people are willing to pay all that | the desired strip of territory is worth, and the most generous price would be a bagatelle compared with the cost ofa war. President Grant may rely on the moral support of the people in any honorable negotiation for a rectification of our southern boundary, but they would denounce him as something worse than a blunderer if he should precipi- tate the country into a war for any reasons which have yet come to the public knowledge. The President of the Senate. Since the death of Vice President Wilson the record of Senator Ferry on one of the im- portant questions of the time excites anxiety and would almost justify alarm. According to his record he is a fanatical inflationist, | and there is no evidence that he has abjured that dangerous heresy. In the great debate | in the spring of last year there was nota | more zealous, thorough-paced, rabid infla- | tionist on the floor of the Senate than Mr. | Ferry, with the single exception of General | John A. Logan. Has Mr. Ferry recanted the | views of which he was then one of the | boldest and fiercest champions? If he has not it is high time he shold. When he was elected, last March, as President pro tem. of the Senate, his | soundness on great public questions seemed of little consequence except to his imme- diate constituents. At that time there were two lives between him and the Presidency of the United States; now there is but one. If President Grant should suddenly be taken away Thomas W. Ferry, of Michigan, would be his successor. The country has reason to shudder at the possibility. It will demand that Mr. Ferry shall define his present views and tell where he stands. He must une- quivocally renounce inflation and pledge his honor to sound monetary doctrines or step down and ont. If he cannot make this choice the Senate must make it for him on the first day of the session. It can change its President pro tem. at pleasure, and if Mr. Ferry is still an inflationist it would be in- excusable for the Senate to retain him in his present position, when only a single life Presidency of the United States. Let Us Caance tHe Trae or tae Exxc- tion.—No city chief magistrate ever came into office with the general accepta- | bility of Mayor Wickham. The recent election shows that he has forfeited | this position, and is even now so value- less in his own party that its leader threw him overboard at the beginning of the con- | test with a cruelty which we have rarely seen in politics. Mayor Wickham is ostracised. requested by the Governor of Texas. It is | said in the despatch that ‘the excitement | upon this subject, promoted for two or three | | years past by the residents of the American frontier, is attributable in great measure to | a desire to involve the two republics in war | for purposes of annexation.” This is the | Mexican view, and the Mexican Commission proposed, as practical remedies, the strength- | | ening of the penal laws of Texas and of the | | frontier States of Mexico and a revision of | the Extradition Treaty of 1861, s0 as to make | it applicable to all cases of cattle stealing and | similar crimes on the frontier. Probably | | something might be done in this direction, but we-doubt if such remedies would prove | adequate for so deep-seated a disease. ‘The | frontiers on both sides of the Rio Grande are inhabited by bold, reckless, desperate | men, who will encounter great risks for plun- der. Many of them claim to be citizens and exercise political rights on both sides of the frontier, adopting this as a means of evading the Extradition Treaty, which, as it now stands, does not permit either government to make requisitions for the surrender of citizens of the other. Many of these rough desperadoes are prepared to claim the im- munities of citizenship on either side and perpetrate their remorseless robberies on | both. We have no doubt that the true remedy is ment in our Washington despatches yester- when it is ripe enough for annexation to from the head of the Gulf of California to make it necessary to buy the island, and the. the point at which the Rio Grande ceases to | bill forbidding the government to suggest American people see no present necessity of be navigable, deserves respectful considera- | candidates to the electors. | some way be respected. The people have spoken and they have writ- ten the sentence of his banishment. The virtue of resignation does not belong to our modern politics, or Mayor Wickham might accept the will of the people ex- pressed at the last election as an intimation that he should retire ; but that will should in It seems to us that the best way to do it is to change | the time of the municipal election from autumn to spring. This is the plan of Goy- ornor Tilden. Let ns have an election next spting, and Mayor Wickham may then have an opportunity of testing the pop- ularity which seems to have melted like a snow image before the spring sun. Tur Sreamsare Amrniqve, abandoned at | sea a year ago, and subsequently brought into Plymouth, England, by two English | steamers, has met with another accident. She broke her shaft at sea, and is now ¢1 deavoring to reach port under sail, Her mails and a part of her passengers were transferred to the China and have been landed at Queenstown, but no fears need be entertained for the safety of the others, The abandonment policy of last year is not | likely to be again resorted to, and danger | from the elements is not to be especially feared. Ina day or two we may expect to | hear of the arrival of the vessel in port, and | then we shall learn all about the accident | and its causes. Ir Is a Prry tho Ministerial ‘party in the French Assembly was not beaten on the clause sought to be inserted in the Electoral The small ma- fighting for it. Hence it is likely that Span- | tion, Such a change of bonndary would | jority by which it was defeated shows a very ish fears are oxagcerated. bring the greater part of the Rio Grande healthy sentiment on this subiect. ‘ | the most powerful combination that ever | even as gifted as Mr. Hall changing a pro- | There is really no reason why men who | dulge political career as noted andin some re- | spects as brilliant as that of Mr. Hall. _ a brilliant and versatile actor. | ous Goethe was never so happy as when la- | and from thence to sentiment. ; him, so we learn from what our reporters | he takes advantage of a fragment of the | beyond | to eminence and power, how he administered NOVEMBER 24, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. Latest Dramatic Sensation—From the Forum to the Stage. There has been for some time past a strange story going from club to club and from greenroom to greenroom to the effect that ex-Mayor Oakey Hall had resolved to go upon the stage as a dramatic performer. No announcement for a long time is calculated to make a widersensation. Mr. Hall, by rea- son of the enmities as well as of the friend- ships engendered by a long life in politics and law, has achieved a world-wide reputation. Beginning life as a journalist, then going into a political career, then becoming the | chief criminal officer and the chief executive officer of the city, afterwards a member of governed a great muvicipality, his new ap- | pearance will be an interesting nt. | It would be an injustice to Mr. Hall bim- | self as well as to the public to indulge in any predictions as to his success in his new | calling. History shows few instances of men fession in the latter years of life. The mind isa good deal like the body; it is apt to be- come set in its functions, to grow into ac- customed ways, and to find new offices diffi- cult if not impossible. On the first blush we should feel that the ex-Mayor had made a perilous experiment; but he is an old stager ; he has played many parts in his time; he has shown that histrionic taste which in many cases is hereditary, and has exercised an irresistible fascination upon talented persons in all generations. We have seen players of more or less merit go from the stage into other callings with acceptability. in- a have the dramatic it, even gift should not at the close of Mr. Boucicault and Mr. Brougham and the late Sheridan Knowles show that the literary fac- ulty may be developed to the highest point in men who are professional players. Mr. Dickens came within an ace of becoming a comedian. To the close of his life he was, whenever he cared to appear on the boards, The illustri- boring over the stage management of the theatre at Weimar. Speaking of the greatest of Germans, we naturally think of the greatest of Englishmen, who was known in his gen- eration, not alone asthe writer of ‘‘Hamlet,” but as the representative of a not very re- markable ghost. We believe it is no secret that a lady as well known as Anna Dickin- son, who ten years ago was the ‘Joan of Arc” of the anti-slavery movement in the eyes of her friends, and who has been for years one of our most popular female lecturers, has decided to adopt the dramatic career and will soon appear at one of our theatres. The début of Miss Kate Field, one of our most accomplished lecturers and essayists, was the event of the last dramatic season. All of which shows that the resolution of | Mr. Hall, strange as it may seem, is not with- out many examples to lessen our wonder. If any profession would naturally tend to the stage it is that of the law. Nearly every great advocate is more or less an actor. He is an impersonation. He is constantly act- ing a part written in his brief. To-day he is the miser; to-morrow he is denouncing avarice. From pathos he goes to humor, The maiden who has lost her lover, the father who would save the life of hisson, the wife who would be protected, the husband whose hearth- stone has fallen into ruin, are all parts which are written as frequently on the briefs of an advocate like Mr. Hall as on the prompter’s book of an actor like Mr, Booth or Mr. Wallack. As thé true actor plays the part which best suits tell us elsewhere that Mr. Hall will play a part drawn from his own remarkable and | varied experience. It will not alone be the comedian telling us what the dramatist has written, but a once distinguished and now much-censured public official telling the story of his public life in the form of a play. In this respect Mr. Hall’s appearance will be an event which stands alone and unique in our dramatic history. He becomes an advocate in the highest sense, for he will be the hero of his own play. Certainly if opportunities which such a life opens to him he will make a sensation far the histrionic value of his performance, the sensation of a man who feels that he has a story to tell of how he rose the important trusts imposed upon him by a party and a people, and how he fell from station and authority. The thousands who have believed in Oakey Hall as a man more sinned against than sinning, and whose mis- fortunes came from circumstances which he | could not control, will welcome the oppor- tunity which he seeks to make a new defence and a new fame. In this spirit we therefore welcome Mr. Hall into his new profession, and trust that his success will be such as to justify the best | wishes of all who believe in his courage and | his ability, and who feel that courage and ability can find no better field than on the stage. | sequently this secret, irresponsible Order, not | a committee be appointed to inquire into the Tue Boarp ov Atpermen have increased the figures of the Board of Apportionment $121,760 in the city estimates for 1876, and this in spite of many reductions in important departments. Some curious things will be observed in these changes, especially in the | | care of themselves manifested by the City Fathers. The estimate for salaries of clerks | and officors of the Board of Aldermen was increased $5,000, and the city government was voted $150,000 for stationery, an increase of $12,500. Other items which have been | sums of money, When a ve | increased or inserted smack of jobbery, and | seized. the freight the entire budget needs analysis, so that the voyage The Fox Hunt in New Jersey. They have had a fox hunt in New Jersey. The people liked it, but the fox did not. Mr. Bergh was not present. Had he been there the event would have been more exciting, for the probability is that the hounds would | have hunted Mr. Bergh. Great preparations had been made for this, meeting, and some of the finest riders, the best dogs and the sincerest sportsmen in the country were in attendance. The fox was also very much in earnest. There were six and a half couples | of hounds, all of thom especially | educated for their duty. Whether they were “bred out of the Spartan kind” we know not, but they answered the Shakespearian de- scription (and nothing finer has ever been written) ; for Their heads were hung With ears (hat sweep away the morn Crook-knw welap'd Hike Piess Slow in pt but mateh’d tn Kuch wader cach, A ery more t Was never halloo’d to, nor cheer'd with hora, In Crete, in Sparta, uor in Thessaly, But fine as this pack was, skilful as was the master of the hounds, the fox was too much for them. Over the fields he ran, and into the woods; down the road he trotted, in full view of the riders, and then again into the | timber. It was a duel between the intellect of man, supported by the reason of the dogs, and the instinct and cunning of the fox. And who shall say that the fox had not as much intellect as his hunters? His life and his brush were the stake and he desired to save them both, The hounds followed Reynard as he ran under the brushwood and doubled on his track ; the brave riders cheered ; Mr. Blassen, on his gallant horse, Jack Horner, leaped innumerable fences and hedges, but still the red tail of the fox gleamed like a fiery meteor in the distance. “Tally-ho! Tally-ho!" rang from the mouths of the unbaffled hunters. The fox heard the shout and broke from the open to the cover. The dogs, with panting tongues, followed upon the palpable path. The horses shared the excitement of the men, Go on, brave fox! our sympathies are with you, American sympathies always are with the weaker party in the battle, and that is the reason why all our hearts go forth to Cuba and cry ‘God speed !” to the hunted insurgents who hide themselves like foxes in the hills from the sleuth hounds, the greyhounds, the mighty mastiffs of Spain. But we must return to the hunt near Hackensack, where all the gentlemen of the vicinity and all the riders within an orbit of a hundred miles combined to capture the brush of one poor little fox. Mr. Reynard made a gallant fight for his brush and won it. In some secluded den in rocks or woods he now waves his victorious tail. It is strange that one fox should thus triumph over all New Jersey, yet such is the situa- tion, and after this victory of animal instinct over human reason why should we be sur- prised at any marvels in the politics of our sister State? The fox has conquered in New Jersey, and everywhere, indeed, in American affairs, we read the triumph of the fox—the fox, the fox—except in the First ward. “Know-Nothing” Tammany. The main objection to the Tammany Hall organization, as it now stands, is that it is controlled by a secret, irresponsible lodge, which meets in a secret room and has no responsibility to any form of public opinion. This lodge, or Columbian Order, is an aneient society going back to the early days of the Republic. It began, we believe, as an association partly benevolent, and it has been continued to the present day. Its eon- trol over the Tammany Hall organization isa matter of slow growth, and has only become apparent in the last twenty-five years. This secret society elects ‘‘sachems,"” who have power over the Tammany Hall building and property. Although these sachems do not take an avowed part in political affairs, yet they have the power at any time to keep the Tammany Hall organization within their own control or within that of their favorites. This was shown during the revolt of the young democracy against Tweed. The sen- timent of the democratic party was as much opposed to the rule of Tweed then as to the rule of Kelly now. If it had been allowed | expression it would have taken possession of | Tammany Hall and saved New York a great | deal of money by throwing out the robbers. | But Tweed and his allies invoked the inter- position of the sachems of the secret Order. | Through their aid they were enabled to maintain a power which they had usurped and which was no longer sustained even by the public opinion of their own party. What was done then may be done any time. Con- merely controls the politics of New York, but becomes a bulwark for crime and pecu- lation. Clearly a charter thus perverted from its original uses, which has become an engine of evil to the city, is forfeit. The way to strike Tammany Hall is for the Legis- lature, when it meets, to strike the Tammany Society. Let the charter be cancelled. Let violations of its provisions. There can be no independence of the democratic party of | New York until Tammany is broken, and the way to destroy Tammany Hall is to legislate | out of existence Tammany Society. | War wir Exoranp on account of the fish- | eries question is among the most improbable of events, and yet a rumor of this kind reaches us through the Washington corre- spondence of the Boston Herald. Absurdity of invention could searcely go further than in this story, and we print it as a unique specimen of its kind. AN Iwvorrant Dversion his | pondered by the Court of Alabama Claims, | The point which has beey determined in- yolves a great principle as well as large el is unjustly for the to the charges are as clearly a loss people's money may not be thrown away by | owners, where they were nnable to collect hasty and ill-considered action. Axornen Murpen has been committed in this city, the result of a barroom quarrel, The murderer is still at large, and the crime | | them in advange, or to shippers, where | they were already paid, as the vessel | and cargo. Anything short of this would be an injustice, and the Court has taken high and just ground in the decision which has was unknown to the police for several hours | just been rendered. Nothing is more im- after its occurrence. This homicide is | portant in the dealings of nations than that further evidence that the downtown drink- | unjust seizures at sea shall involve tho | ing resorts are entirely free from police | fullest responsibility, and the Court of Ala- surveillance, the barrooms being a safer | bama Claims has done commerce a great retreat for the criminal classes then thow own domiciles. service in sanctioning and enforcing this im- portant principle. The Connecticut Senatorship. The death of Senator Ferry, whose retir- ing disposition and ill health alone prevented him frou: becoming a conspicuous figure in the Senate, leaves a vacant seat in that body. ‘This may be filled temporarily by the Gov- ernor of Connecticut, in which ease the Leg- islature to be chosen next April would on its meeting elect a Senator for the then remaining pert of Senator Ferry’s term, or’ Governor Ingersoll may call an extra session of the present Legislature for the purpose of choos- ing a Senator at once. The present Legisla- ture is democratic; that which isto be chosen in April, and which will meetin May, may be republics Governor Ingersoll is a dem- ocrat. Considering all these umstances, it seems most probable that he will call an extra session of the present Legislature, and that body will thereupon choose a Senator to fillthe unexpired term of Senator Ferry, Bs | which covers the whole of the present Con- gress, ending in March, 1877. Of the Connecticut men spoken of for the place the foremost in national and European reputation is Mr. David A. Wells. He was chairman of the convention which nomi- nated Governor Ingersoll, and wrote on that occasion the excellent platform with which the democrats of Connec- tient appealed to the people and carried the State. His presence in the United States Senate would be a credit to the State and to the party. He ranks both here and in Europe among the ablest of our public men, and his studies have made him an ex- pert upon questions which the present Con- gress will probably be called upon to dis- cuss and settle, and which it is of the ut- most importance shall be settled intelli- gently. Other persons spoken of as proba- ble candidates for Mr. Ferry’s seat are Gov- ernor Ingersoll himself, Mr. William H. Bar- num, a very wealthy man, long a Representa- tive in Congress, and somewhat conspicuous for his inattention to his Congressional duties; ex-Governor English, who has long been in public life, and, it is now said, Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler, of the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine. The country will watch with interest the action of the democrats in Connecticut. It was disappointed last year when it saw them in Missouri rejecting Seha- tor Schurz in favor of an unknown and not very wise local politician, and in Pennsyl- vania rejecting Mr. Buckalew, in some re- spects the ablest man of their party in that State, and electing a man certainly less con- spicuous as a statesman, The democratic party needs to regain the confidence of the people, and to do that it needs, wherever.it has the opportunity, to send its foremost, ablest and wisest men into public life. Canpinan McCrosxey, during his stay in Dublin, held a very interesting conversation with a correspondent of the Hxraup relative to the condition of Rome and the difficulties between the Vatican and the Italian govern- ment. It is not impossible that the dis- tinguished prelate will arrive in this city in time to peruse the report of this conversa- tion in the Heranp this morning simultane- ously with the rest of our readers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Funny poet John G. Saxe is getting well. ‘The latest slang is, “Oh, pall down your vest!’ Vico President Ferry was elocted by the republicans as an inflationist. Apropos of the Poe monument a poet wrote, “He asked for bread and he received a stone."” MM. Butfet, De Broglie, Thiers and Gambetta nar- rowly escayed being wrecked on the Sth inst. bya freight train. The young Prince of Grana Para, Brazil, isto be christened in December, and, it is understood, will re- ceive the name of Pedro. The witty saying, apropos of Thanksgiving, “Pick out your turkey and wait for a dark night,” is sarcas teally ascribed to a college journal, Charles Francis Adams has recently been quoted as saying that the thing necessary fora revival of busi ness in this country was a revival of religion. M. de Maupas, Louis Napoleon’s notorious police agent, now wants to bea Deputy. Some men now in Paris would rather favor his adjournment to New Cale- donta, The idea of the devil was originated by the Per. sians, who made him to typify hunger. Thatis what makes men say, “I’m as hungry as the devil; let’s have a half dozen raw,"’ A Now York gentleman, burrying through New Haven in search of a boat, was arrested as a Innatie. When he explained that be was not a Yale student the odd fellows let him off. “You will not rest till you sit here at the table at which I am sitting. In every superior—so you said years ago—you see anaturalenemy. At this moment 1 ain the enemy. ’—Prine® Bismarck to Count Arnim. Whon the Prince of Wales reached India the editor of anewspaper of that country announced that he gave himegelf and his establishment a leave of absence for two weeks, and that he wished his subscribers good luck. Ovid said that one who would marry suitably should marry an equal; but it remained for Theodore Parker to say that marriages were best made of dissimilar material, This latter statement accounts for the fact that Congressmen have nice wives. Now it is said that certain divinity students of Harvard, visiting New Haven, got into a dispute on a theological subject in a saloon, and ordered two schooners of beer, when up spoke a waiter and said, “Know ye not that it hath been said no man shall gerve two masters ??” Sara a Nevada lawyer concerning a man who had kicked his wife down stairs:—“Gentlemen of the jury, he h’isted ber! at heavens, he h’isted her! He— the brute, once, perhaps, a man—raised his foot and applied to the form of her who, at the holy altar, he had sworn to Io rish.” The Women" joty of London are ukely to have rather uphill work, Not only have they to contend against open opposition, but they have to en counter the machinations of a secret society of mem bers of Parliament, whieh has been formed for the ex- press purpose of defeating Mr, Forsyth’s bill Gambetta is annoyed by the appearance of an anony- mous pamphlet entitled J°y mis: jy reste It threatens the Marshal President with untold retribu- tion if he doesn’t retain his position independent of alt parties, The threat scemsa little unnecessary. Mac- n has already shows more pluck than tho mys- teriolus author, Some of the Indian papers are declaring themselves afraid of Colonel Baker. The Pioneer professes to have seen a letter from him, addressed to General Kaufmann, offering his services and promising that if they are ac cepted he will denationalize himself and become » Russian sutjoet. It appears that Colonel Baker has groat knowledge of Central Asta, and the Pioneer ex pects to see him one day fighting in the Russian army against England, and so revenging himself, Says Professor Bartlety, of Califormia:—“tt is a curious fact that when Bret Harte had brought forth bis first book with the modest title of ‘Outcroppings,’ it was pelted from one end of the State of California to the other, It did not contain a poem of bis own; but it did contain samples of the best poetry other than his own whieh bad been produced in California, Hig critics, catching the suggestion of the title, flung at him p ry, granite and barren quartz, but never a | rock contarning a grain of gold. He might have puta | torpedo into a couple of stanzas and oxtinguishedthem all; but he saw the humorous side of the assault and enjoyed itwith a keener vest than any of bis assatl ante,”